Leicester student Library Champions help shape access to academia
A GROUP of students at the University of Leicester have been helping library staff shape services. A total of 44 Leicester Library Champions
have been volunteering with staff to develop new ways of improving access to services and resources for other students. The proj- ect has helped highlight user-needs across a total of six projects, with input from under- graduates, Master’s and PhD students. The six areas covered by the library champions are: inputting to the Library’s Represent campaign by generating online content to share with Leicester students and promote diverse library resources by creating themed online reading lists; using feedback to investigate the effectiveness and impact of teaching research skills at the University of Leicester; exploring a num- ber of different audio tools to both improve accessibility and promote active reading, to be adopted within academic study; learning how to edit Wikipedia articles and improve access for readers openly available pub- lications and media; developing a library toolkit to diversify reading lists and con- tribute to Leicester’s inclusive curricu- lum; and engaging with the Archives and
Library Champions programme lead Heena Karavadra (right) with three of Leicester’s latest Library Champions in the David Wilson Library on the University of Leicester campus.
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Special Collections team to learn archive skills, and the process of producing creative responses to the past, while also contributing to a student record of the university’s centenary year. Heena Karavadra is an Academic Librarian with the University of Leicester’s Library and Learning Services, and leads
the
Library Champions programme. She said: “The Library Champions scheme is a won- derful opportunity for the Library to work in collaboration with students from all levels of study and all subject areas to help improve services for students. I’ve been leading the Library Champions scheme
for three years and I learn something new from our students every time. “Their unique perspective and insight into the library has helped shape new initiatives such as the Represent campaign and helped us to understand better with how students use the library services.” Samuel Carter, a third-year Physics
with Space Science BSc student, who took part in the project said: “Being part of the Library Champions was a great opportun- ity to work on skills that I will be able to transfer into the wider world, while also being part of something meaningful to the university community.”
June 2022
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